For the most part, I enjoy DF content. Especially their performance, game tech highlights and optimized settings pieces. My issue with them is when it comes to their, opinion-based pieces. Because that is where their bias? double standards? Or maybe just ignorance shows. I don't know what to call it.
And why I have an issue with that is because on second they are praising something, and the next they are criticizing the same thing (and maybe even done better) from someone else. Or they somehow just become dumb and have tunnel vision when its convenient or helps push some sort of prejudiced shared opinion they have.
Since the biggest issue here is the CPU, this is what I would have expected at some point from DF. If I know it, or can see it, then I am sure they have too. CPUs are generally poorly utilized in nearly every game engine out there. And this is super easy to see just by looking at any performance readout when running a game. DF has somehow, for whatever reason, accepted that the best way forward would be to brute force the problem. DF acknowledges that devs have difficulty parallelizing their CPU workloads, this is why CPU threads use is so lopsided, you will usually see one thread or two out of 12 threads being slammed and running at over 90% utilization, but the rest of the 10 threads idling by at 10-20%.
So the easy fix, just have as fast a CPU as possible. But that is not a practical or even sustainable approach. I would expect DF to call this out, to show and give emphasis and credit to games that show proper CPU utilization and as a result very good overall performance. But they don't. So how can I blame anyone here when they are saying or pushing for things that to me are just unreasonable. It's possible they do not see the issue, hell... my saying this has been branded as damage control lol. If DF pointed these out with more frequency though, a lot of people wont be saying what they are saying right now.